Here in the stream bearing on hall as a lot of people oh yeah get away from me life what a nice place what is that new price is too crowded can you relate whether as a tourist or a resident of a City Catering to tourists share your thoughts with us via twitter or our live chat. Venice barcelona. Picchu all these popular destinations have become overwhelmed by tourists in recent years and local residents are starting to say enough in june and massive cruise ship crashed into adult in venice injuring 5 people the incident was the last straw for many local residents thousands gathered to protest the vessels and the toys who writes in on them have a look at this. Oh as. When i see these big bruisers passing by the cast a shadow on my entire and i feel a sense of doom. But this is a case study for what experts are warning will be the new normal from now on thats thanks to a growing global middle class and cheaper air fares so our cities prepared for over tourism heres what one eco Friendly
Hot, hot saturday morning, temperatures only going up from here. That is why were in weather lert mode this morning. Another dangerously hot day is on tap. He foratest well check in with Lauryn Ricketts. Its like ablanket. Its that heat blanket covering you out there right now. Even as we headed into the early torning hours you can s haze out there. Sun coming up, just about two minutes ago. See if we canet that sun for you. But again it is a hazy day out there already. Of course you see ouranners are red for weather alert. Take a look, these are the temperatures right now at 6 00 a. M. On your saturdaymorning. In the 70s right now in d. C. , coming in at 81 degrees. But lets go ahead and factor in that humidity. It feels like 86 out there. And last hour it felt like 88. Its come down a little bit, improvement, improvement, people. Temperatures right now, again, are on the warm side. And so it feels pretty hot wen you head out there. Thats why we have that excessive heat warning and it
In designated outside area but also when i was free i did i want to well i didnt want to get a right now. Well you know i think. People on social media need to be aware of this because on the way tourists are going to places and theyre getting hefty fines and trouble balance is fine i have a comment because i mean i appreciate your viewpoints on the sociology of tourism which i know is your expertise but theres a lot Bigger Picture here to deal with for the readers and folks that are watching us today and that is that the rapid growth of tourism is creating a whole new paradigm for destination now they may be struggling with putting in the right type of regulations which is what youre talking about but i think what youre saying is minimizing the problem in a way that will harm the overall process because what we need to do is come up with a much more alert. Way of managing the intensifying crabs and i disagree with you this is a Global Crisis im sure that choice can speak to the issues
Thing to stand with the people like in this situation that its not like the bad guys and the good guys and who do we stand with just like there are children mothers. People are dying this is the satellite imagery of one syrian town and whats happened to it in recent months but its far from clear whether theres a way to stop yet further destruction and loss of life james out zira of the united nations. Now as being 100 years since of National Museum and kabul was 1st established many of its play islamic artifacts were destroyed by the taliban 18 years ago baathists are now working to restore them. Shares it in software has been working at the afghan National Museum for 38 years he was one of 3 museum employees ordered by the taliban in march 2001 to bring statues out of the safe room for them to destroy he says the taliban was wrong to target the museum. Its important for afghanistan because it shows the history of this country its not about worship it tells us how people lived in the p
Of the landmark military agreement signed between north and south korea last september during the period of improving relations that was meant to have put an end to testings like this one south koreas defense minister has said that if the north continues with threats and provocations like this then it would have to be considered an enemy so there has been some very strong words used by south korea contrasting with all of the period of reconciliation that weve had over the past year and a half or so north korea said when it launched missiles last week that that should be considered to be a solemn warning to south korea being very careful not to direct any of its anger all wrath at the americans and that u. S. President donald trump in particular but this does seem to be a reminder from them about the size of their nuclear and missile arsenal that yes this is only a short range missile but it is a reminder that they are serious about getting the u. S. Back to the negotiating table and ev